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CD1 genotyping of patients with Mycobacterium malmoense pulmonary disease.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jul 2001
Jones D C, Gelder C M, Ahmad T, Campbell I A, Barnardo M C, Welsh K I, Marshall S E, Bunce M
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium malmoense is an opportunistic mycobacterium that occasionally causes disease in non-immunosuppressed individuals. As only a few individuals exposed to these organisms actually develop clinical disease, it is possible there is a genetic component to susceptibility. CD1 molecules are capable of presenting antigens from more virulent mycobacteria to T cells; therefore, we were interested in discovering...
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